| BIG LIES The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth Joe Conason New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2003 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-312-31560-3 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-312-31560-0 | 245p. | HC | $24.95 | |
| Page 27: | "His first Treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, resisted European initiatives to shut down the multinational corporations' foreign tax havens." |
| I'd like to see some support for this. It goes against everything I know about O'Neill. |
| Page 92: | "Hysteria over the threat to freedom posed by political correctness reached its peak in 1993, after a minor incident at the University of Pennsylvania, when a white male student shouted an epithet at three black female students walking outside his dormitory." |
| I recollect there were more than three females, and they were doing more than just walking. |
| Page 94: | "His implied endorsement of the antiblack, prolynching presidential candidacy of the doddering former Dixiecrat almost escaped notice at first." |
| S/B "This implied endorsement of" and "by the doddering former Dixiecrat". |
| Page 104: | "Vice President Dick Cheney insists that neither citizens nor Congress has the right to know which corporate leaders (and Bush-Cheney donors) met with him..." |
| Number: S/B "neither any citizen". |
| Page 111: | "For some reason female commentators on the right — particularly those ubiquitous miniskirted blondes — seem particularly excited by this overwrought theory." |
| Missing comma: S/B "For some reason, female commentators". (For some, female commentators — particularly those miniskirted blondes — are particularly exciting. But "ubiquitous"? Hardly. I wonder who besides Coulter he had in mind.) |
| Page 213: | "Likewise, Ann Coulter's columns on the subject can be found on hers (www.anncoulter.org), along with some very nice pictures." |
| My initial reaction was: "some very nice pictures"??? Say it ain't so, Joe!1 I also suspected the link might no longer work. But I took a look. It does work, and Conason is right; these pictures make her look... human. |
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